Case Study: Kainos achieves profitable growth and greater financial efficiency with Workday

Kainos gains greater insight to drive profitable growth

Kainos, a digital transformation services company, needed to replace a rigid, manual financial system that made reporting slow and limited budget control after its 2015 public listing. The company had already been using Workday Human Capital Management, and turned to Workday for a more adaptable finance platform, adding Workday Financial Management and related tools to improve insight and control.

With Workday, Kainos created a single source of truth across finance and HR, automated key processes, and gave project teams more ownership of budgets. Results included a 33% reduction in half-year external audit time, manually entered invoices falling from 50% to 15%, monthly close time improving from 8 days to 7, supplier payment runs dropping from days to 20–30 minutes, and £95,000 in savings from automation. Workday also helped Kainos improve forecasting, speed up reporting to a day, and increase financial visibility.

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